BusinessWeek -- Innovation of the Week
By BusinessWeek
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Podcast Description
Each week, BusinessWeek's innovation and design writers and editors talk with the most cutting-edge minds in business.
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New Products Require Quicker R&D | Despite financial, economic, and regulatory pressures, companies must hurry along their product development. Standardizing or automating routine processes can help, as Asian leaders are showing | 11/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Can Government Spark Innovation? | Alec Ross, senior advisor on innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, discusses how governments at home and abroad can fuel inventive thinking. Companies such as Google and Cisco, he says, have gained from public funding | 11/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Telepresence: An Innovation Hotbed? | Robert C. Hagerty, CEO of Polycom, discusses why he thinks videoconferencing and telepresence (essentially very high-quality videoconferencing) will spark invention and new business partnerships | 11/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Building Shanghai's Design Culture | Both local and multinational design firms in Shanghai are starting to explore the role design can play in addressing social issues such as education and the environment, says Tim Marshall, provost of the New School in New York. | 10/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reimagining Consumer Products | New York innovation consultancy Fahrenheit 212 has helped the likes of Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble develop new products. CEO Geoff Vuleta tells how the firm also came up with a new vending machine for Samsung | 10/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Defining Large-Scale Innovation | Innovation adviser and author John Kao says that scaling up innovation projects requires acting on behalf of society, not just corporations. Could governments play a larger role? | 10/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Valuing Social Networks | Amid the recent hype surrounding the valuations of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, Harvard professor Nicholas Christakis discusses the hidden values of being connected both offline and online | 10/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pursuit of Elegance | The best ideas have something missing - and that's no bad thing, says former Toyota consultant Matthew E. May. Here, he explains the importance of elegance and evolutionary innovation in business | 9/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Business Should Think Like Designers | Tim Brown, CEO of design shop IDEO, writes in his new book, Change by Design, that companies would do better by adopting "design thinking." Learn what customers want, he says, and answer their needs | 9/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Turn the Downturn to Your Advantage | Bain & Co. partner Darrell Rigby, author of Winning in Turbulence, says smart companies will assess strengths during the recession and move toward recovery with daring but calculated actions. He talks to BusinessWeek's Reena Jana | 9/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R&D Can't Wait for the Recovery | Companies are slashing budgets as sales have tumbled. But Lisa Gundry, director of DePaul University's Center for Creativity & Innovation, warns that cutting R&D now will mean stale catalogs when customers return | 9/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Getting to Plan B | Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Randy Komisar discusses his book, Getting To Plan B. By eschewing the traditional business plan, entrepreneurs and innovators can build thriving enterprises | 9/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Leaner Way to Develop Products | Dantar Oosterwal, a former product-development exec at Harley-Davidson and Sara Lee and the author of The Lean Machine, argues that innovation can be streamlined just like manufacturing. | 8/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Innovation Doesn't Triumph Naturally | Most people need some coaxing to try something new, says David Midgley, an INSEAD marketing professor and author. That's why marketing is so critically important | 8/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Starbucks that's 'Not a Starbucks' | Starbucks want to create a new, niche coffee shop. Will 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea appeal to consumers or will it inspire a backlash? Branding expert Brian Collins weighs in | 8/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Determining Twitter's Value | Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and director of MIT's Center for Digital Business, says Twitter can be measured by how it makes people productive, not just in monetary value | 8/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Innovation 101: What Do Customers Want? | While most companies say innovation is the key to growth, they often don't know quite what their clients want. Consultant Ulwick of Strategyn has a Six Sigma-like process to figure that out and, in turn, set companies on a surer product-development course. | 7/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Design in a Recession | The co-founder of Smart Design, a New York innovation consultancy, discusses how industrial design was born in the Great Depression -- and how it can galvanize economic growth even in very tough times | 7/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Microsoft's Trickle-Up Strategy | Microsoft is looking to developing-world audiences for inspiration on new products for the U.S. Now it is also increasingly hunting for R&D talent among students in emerging markets. The company's Amit Mital explains | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Building Innovation Radar | The more successful a company is today, the more likely it is to be disrupted tomorrow. MIT Sloan School of Management visiting professor Alan MacCormack suggests new approaches for anticipating what's ahead | 7/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Computer Sciences CIO Sees Progress | Lemuel Lasher, chief innovation officer at Computer Sciences Corp. says that although IT spending is down, innovation continues | 6/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Experiments, Prototypes & Concepts | I Miss My Pencil is a book of ideas and concepts. Co-author and IDEO design strategist Kara Johnson discusses some of the book's findings and explains why freewheeling experimentation is important | 6/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can American Idol Spur Invention? | Wharton professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl T. Ulrich discuss how companies can cultivate and select new business opportunities by creating or participating in competitions for ideas. | 6/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Building an Innovation Culture | Building an innovation culture might be one of the least discussed challenges facing executives. But, says InnoCentive CEO Dwayne Spradlin, it's also one of the most pressing. Spradlin offers tips and advice for fostering internal innovation | 6/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Transformative Innovation | The recession has caused industries to crumble and companies to rethink how they do business. Innosight President Scott Anthony discusses how to adapt and survive with fewer resources. | 6/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Innovation in 11 Easy Steps | Gerald Sindell, who runs business consultancy Thought Leaders International, talks about the process he has developed to help people become innovative. He lays out this step-by-step program in his new book, The Genius Machine | 5/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Starck on Design | "I am always ashamed of everything I do." So speaks Philippe Starck, creator of iconic products, luggage, hotels, even spaceship interiors. In this freewheeling interview, he candidly takes on all topics | 5/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Key to Corporate Longevity | Innovative products and services will take a company only so far. Northwestern University's Robert Wolcott counsels corporations to create offshoot businesses, too | 5/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Defining the Creator Economy | Forecaster and strategist Paul Saffo discusses the shift from "consumer" to "creator" economy, and the implications this has for Big Business | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Design Strategy for Business | In 2007, Nathan Shedroff helped launch an MBA program in design strategy at California College of the Arts. Here, he discusses some things the faculty has learned so far, along with the importance of design thinking in business | 4/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Accessible Design Is Good Business | Companies such as Apple are focusing on how design for the disabled might inspire easy-to-use gadgets for people of all ages and abilities. Graham Pullin, author of Design Meets Disability, discusses how this approach makes sense for businesses. | 4/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Future of the City | The U.N. estimates that by 2050 some 70 percent of the world's population will live in cities. Chris Luebkeman, director for global foresight and innovation at Arup, discusses the implications of this shift, and some of the measures being taken to face it | 4/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Business Can Find Its Way | "I know your system was a success because nobody mentioned it." So spoke a happy client to David Gibson, a trailblazing New York designer. Here, Gibson explains the importance of information design, as shown by outfits such as Apple and Best Buy | 4/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'Unthinkable' Business Strategies | Joshua Cooper Ramo, managing director at Kissinger Associates and author of The Age of the Unthinkable, says businesses that think counterintuitively will succeed in the downturn | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guy Kawasaki on Startup Innovation | Guy Kawasaki, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and former Apple Fellow, discusses his new startup, the "online magazine rack" Alltop. He also talks about the challenges that large corporations face when trying to think in fresh ways. | 3/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ProgressiveRX vs. Wal-Mart | After graduating from Oxford's Said B-school and working at Ford Europe, Hayden Hamilton left to start an online pharmacy, ProgressiveRx, catering to Americans with no prescription drug coverage. He's competing with the big-box stores on price. | 3/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Open Innovation: A Xerox Case Study | Santokh Badesha, a Xerox fellow and the manager of open innovation for the Xerox Innovation Group, gives the inside story of how the company used open innovation to solve a long-standing problem in its printer business | 3/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Benchmarking American Innovation | Co-author Rob Atkinson explains the findings of "The Atlantic Century," a new report from the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, which calls for U.S. government and business to focus determinedly on innovation. | 2/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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High Growth, Low Risk | Columbia Business School professor and innovation consultant Rita McGrath discusses her new book, Discovery-Driven Growth, and the methods that companies should use to manage growth. | 2/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Making Machines "See" | Dr. Visvanathan Ramesh, Siemens' Inventor of the Year, discusses advances in computing power and the sophisticated camera equipment that makes it possible to endow machines with sight | 2/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philips CEO: Emerging-Market Lessons | The chief executive of Dutch multinational Royal Philips Electronics discusses how the company remains committed to research and mergers and acquisitions in developing regions, even during the downturn | 2/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Innovator's Prescription | It's no secret the U.S. health-care system is in a state of disarray, but can Washington save it? Or will private innovation outpace government proposals? HBS professor Clayton Christensen analyzes some of the key issues facing 21st century health care | 2/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Value of Open Innovation | NineSigma's Frank Evan helps big companies tap independent inventors, university researchers, and others outside their R&D departments. Evan talks about open innovation, how to know if it's working, and why you shouldn't just slash your innovation budget. | 1/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Keeping MINI Fresh | From the 2009 Detroit International Auto Show, MINI Design Chief Gert Hildebrand discusses how his designers keep the iconic line of autos fresh year after year. He also talks about the fraternity of auto designers that meets up at auto shows. | 1/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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IBM's New Retail Tools | American consumers are developing new shopping styles, concludes a new survey of 30,000 shoppers by IBM. Big Blue's Fred Balboni explains a new suite of tools intended to help retailers analyze customers' buying patterns as the downturn continues | 1/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New Contrarianism: Less for Less | Michael Raynor, co-author of The Innovator's Dilemma and author of The Strategy Paradox, outlines his theory of "the new contrarianism." In a downturn, says Raynor, companies need to look beyond belt-tightening to focus obsessively on their customers | 1/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Empathy Loves Company | Dev Patnaik, founder of innovation strategy firm Jump Associates, discusses how businesses can really expand their reach if they take the trouble to look at things through their customer's eyes. | 12/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Year in Innovation: 2008 | BusinessWeek's New York innovation team discuss the main themes and trends of the past year, from disastrous financial innovation to the proposed remodeling of health care | 12/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Net Generation Grows Up | Don Tapscott, author of 'Grown Up Digital,' describes how business leaders must adapt to a new, hyper tech-savvy generation. He also discusses the effect this young group had on the 2008 election and will continue to have on the incoming Administration. | 12/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nestle's Collaborative Strategies | Nestle has been working with art students and emerging-market researchers to develop new products and branch out to new audiences. Helmut Traitler discusses how the Swiss-based company approaches "open" innovation to help Nestle grow. | 12/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Five Traits of Innovative Companies | Rajesh Chandy discusses his study on business innovation, highlighting the five ingredients of successful companies. | 12/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Invest in Office Furniture Now? | The creative director of Coalesse, a recent addition to Steelcase's stable of furniture companies, discusses why it's important to design new types of chairs and conference tables to spark collaboration and encourage fresh thinking in the workplace | 11/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Developing Green Gear | Steve Rendle, president of outdoor-gear maker The North Face, discusses how the company blends its research in sustainable materials with its development of new high-performance products | 11/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The World's Top R&D Spenders | Barry Jaruzelski, a partner at Booz & Co., discusses the findings in the fourth annual Global Innovation 1000 survey of the world's top spenders in corporate R&D, and why it's important to invest in new products during a recession. | 11/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Greening Venture Capital | Paul Holland, general partner of Silicon Valley's Foundation Capital, discusses the role of venture capital in fostering innovative green startups even as the economic downturn dries up funding. | 11/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Power of The Visual | Ben Fry, co-developer of the Processing open-source programming environment and recent winner of the prestigious Muriel Cooper Award for interactive digital communication, discusses the ever-increasing crossover between art, design, and technology | 10/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can a Well-Designed Office Pay Off? | Office design affects productivity. Gensler's Diane Hoskins discusses a survey that shows employees who rate their workplaces as conducive to collaborative and private work tend to perform better, which in turn can improve the bottom line. | 10/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'My' Space | NASA's chief knowledge architect, Jeanne Holm, discusses how the space agency is adopting Web 2.0 technologies, including wikis and social networking tools, to sift through, organize, and archive mountains of mission and launch data | 10/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Test Lab for Greener Houses | Tedd Benson discusses the OPEN Prototype Initiative, a collaboration between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and private industry that aims to develop guidelines to test environmentally friendly ways to design and build homes | 10/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Innovating Through the Crunch | Is financial innovation one of the roots of the crisis? Can companies come out of the downturn stronger? What can executives learn from the credit crunch? Matt Vella and Bruce Nussbaum discuss the consequences of panic on Wall Street | 9/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Economist on the Virtual Economy | Eyjolfur Guomundsson, the first economist hired to study and guide the economy of a massively multiplayer online world, discusses his role in developing the virtual markets within science-fiction video game EVE Online. | 9/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Metallica's Brand Savvy | Branding expert David Turner works with companies such as Coke. Here he talks about his recent job -- designing the cover for Metallica's new album, Death Magnetic -- and about what consumer brands can learn from rock stars. | 9/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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eBay's Fashion Focus | As fashion mavens gather to assess designs for Spring-Summer 2009, eBay's style director takes a look at the intersection of business and fashion | 9/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Design That Matters | Robert Brunner, co-author of a new book that looks at the way great design can make people love a brand, discusses how companies such as Apple, BMW, and Target use design to establish lasting and lucrative relationships with customers. | 9/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R&D After the Crash | John Roese, Nortel's CTO and innovation chief, discusses how the company reorganized its research and development teams in the wake of the telecom slump of 2001. The strategy? Pairing scientists with newly hired usability experts and designers | 8/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The View from 1,614 Feet | Just as new world records are set at the Beijing Olympics, the race to construct the world's tallest building continues. Lead designer William Pedersen discusses the opening of the "super-skyscraper," the Shanghai World Financial Center. | 8/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Olympics and Innovation | BusinessWeek's Reena Jana & John A. Byrne discuss how companies are using the Beijing Games to develop new products & ideas | 8/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conducting Quality Conversations | As the momentum around social networks for business continues to grow, how can executives know what's appropriate and what systems to implement within their own enterprise? Social networks expert John Kembel offers a few ways of thinking about the issue | 8/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When Design Worlds Collide | Tali Krakowsky, Imaginary Forces' director of experience design, discusses the mix of architecture, motion graphics, interior design, and interactive art used in creating immersive experiences for companies including BMW, IBM, and Morgan Stanley | 7/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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R&D: The D Is for Design | Monty Montague, a principal at innovation consultancy Bolt, discusses how incorporating design into traditional R and D departments has led to major innovations at companies ranging from IBM to Herman Miller. | 7/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anytime/Anywhere Media | David Wertheimer, executive director of USC's Anytime/Anywhere Content Lab, argues for a digital middle ground where media companies, consumers, and tech providers--groups that have at times been at odds--can co-create future media innovations | 7/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tuning In to Consumers | Co-author David Meerman Scott discusses Tuned In, a new book that investigates the elements enabling such insurgent brands as Zipcar, Intuit, Magnavox--and even Barack Obama--to resonate with consumers. | 7/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How InnoCentive Is Still Innovative | InnoCentive, the site where companies and nonprofits post problems and anyone can solve them for cash, is always remaking itself. Today, beyond science- and engineering-based challenges, its topics include fixing the U.S. health-care system and clean tech | 7/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Business of Web Design | Design commentator Steven Heller discusses the evolution of digital design and the challenges facing both those building Web-based businesses and those charged with designing them | 6/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Health-Care Innovation | Bob Higgins, longtime venture capitalist and entrepreneurship professor, talks about health care and the threat to U.S. leadership in research from nations that invest more in science. | 6/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Education 2.0 | Clayton Christensen talks about transforming education through disruptive innovation, how schools can cater to children who learn differently, and how the U.S. can improve their system. | 6/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Games for Change | EA's new casual games boss discusses why titles aimed at wider audiences offer designers greater opportunities to innovate. Nashak also talks about Games for Change, a festival uniting do-good nonprofits with game makers. | 6/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Me-Too to New to the World | How does numbers-focused conglomerate Emerson Electric hope to foster breakthrough innovations? Charlie Peters, the company's newly named chief innovation officer, explains. A big part of the effort: developing products that are "new to the world" | 6/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Social Media Groundswell | Charlene Li, the co-author of the new book Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies talks about how companies are tapping into social media to talk with customers rather than at them. | 5/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Whirlpool's Innovation Model | Whirlpool's design chief discusses how innovation helps the company compete in the highly commoditized appliance market. To stay ahead of increasing competition, designers are now working on the development of an ecosystem of new products | 5/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Redesign Business Models | Jeneanne Rae of Peer Insight gives practical advice on how to redesign common business models using examples of transformations in companies from Amazon to IBM and Boeing | 5/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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It's the Experience That Counts | Peter Merholz of Adaptive Path discusses how focusing on consumers' experience of new products and services through rapid prototyping and other means can inform and shape design | 5/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Service Innovation Rising | IBM's chief service researcher discusses the findings of a new survey, conducted with the University of Cambridge, charting the evolution of service innovation and laying out recommendations for businesses and universities seeking to innovate | 4/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Concrete Dragons | Thomas Campanella, author of The Concrete Dragon, talks about China's urban revolution and what the construction boom has to teach architects, urban planners, and city leaders in the West | 4/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Innovative Companies: The Lowdown | BusinessWeek's Bruce Nussbaum chats with BCG's innovation head Jim Andrew about this year's list of the world's most innovative companies | 4/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Things Stefan Sagmeister Has Learned | On the publication of his latest book, "Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far," renowned graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister discusses his philosophy and approach. The key to success for those looking to commission great design? Hire a small firm | 4/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Solving Wicked Problems | Marty Neumeier discusses workplace problems including balancing long-term goals with short-term demands and attempting to predict returns on innovative concepts | 4/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Creating Open Brands | Nita Rollins, co-author of the book The Open Brand, assesses some companies that are embracing the potential of the Web and user-generated content to create compelling marketing campaigns | 3/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Here Comes Everybody | Author and NYU professor Clay Shirky talks about some of the ideas in his new book, "Here Comes Everybody," an exploration of the far-flung effects that Web-enabled social tools, like blogs or Twitter, are having on business and society | 3/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gaming Innovation | Laurent Detoc, Ubisoft North America's president, talks about how the company's surging profits have been driven by innovation and cross-genre experimentation embracing casual games and younger audiences | 3/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finding the Endless City | Deyan Sudjic, co-author of the forthcoming book "The Endless City," talks about the design challenges presented by rapidly expanding mega-cities around the world | 3/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Design and the Elastic Mind | Paola Antonelli, Architecture & Design curator at NY's Museum of Modern Art, discusses a new exhibit that shows how design can transform so-called disruptive technologies, complex data, and scientific breakthroughs in surprising and creative works | 2/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rise of the Guitar Hero | The co-founder of the company behind the massively popular Guitar Hero video game franchise describes how innovation is fueling a new generation of highly engaging interactive media | 2/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Putting Masdar on the Map | Khaled Awad, the man overseeing the development of the massive Masdar city project in Abu Dhabi, talks about the challenges of creating the world's first sustainable metropolis | 2/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Designing A New Supersonic Plane | The chief designer and technology officer behind a new private ultra-fast business jet talks about his company's plans to bring supersonic travel back into the mainstream | 2/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Virtual Factories Get Real | Paul Camuti, CEO of Siemens Corporate Research, talks about how virtual factories can save corporations time and money, for instance by predicting design flaws. If the simulations sometimes look like video games, it's no coincidence, Camuti says | 1/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Channeling the "Opposable Mind" | Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, discusses his theory of "the opposable mind," the ability to assess and balance wildly conflicting ideas, business models, or strategies and come up with an entirely new way of doing things | 1/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Designing Land Rover's New Moves | Andy Wheel, lead designer of the popular Land Rover LR3 SUV, talks about designing premium 4x4s in an era of skyrocketing fuel costs and environmental concerns. With a history of classic, go-anywhere vehicles, how does the British luxury automaker adapt? | 1/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When Companies Make Meatball Sundaes | Marketing guru and entrepreneur Seth Godin has just published his latest book: Meatball Sundae. Here he talks about the new book and what old-school companies should and shouldn't do | 1/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Innovation in 2008 | BusinessWeek Innovation Chief Bruce Nussbaum talks to Innovation & Design editor, Helen Walters about what will really matter in this sphere in 2008, from shifts in the way that businesses work to new thinking about sustainability | 1/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Piracy as Innovation Strategy | Matt Mason, a former London deejay and the founder of RWD, a popular British magazine, argues for piracy as a business model rather than a threat. In his new book, "The Pirate's Dilemma," he discusses the history of piracy--and how it drives innovation | 12/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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India and Innovation | BW Innovation chief, Bruce Nussbaum, talks to editor Helen Walters about his trip to Bangalore for the CII-NID Design Summit and the differences between Chinese and Indian innovation | 12/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Design for Democracy | Marcia Lausen, author of the new book Design for Democracy: Ballot & Election Design, talks about how design can reshape and strengthen the democratic process | 12/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Are Smart Devices that Intelligent? | As machines get more automated, are they also less user-friendly? Design guru and author Don Norman explains why so many products might not be so "smart" after all and what can be learned from the Newton's failure and the Roomba's success | 12/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shaping Ford's Future | Ford's chief designer is trying to make the carmaker cool again with retro-inspired design | 11/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nike's New House of Hoops | Nike made a splash in the 1990s with its Niketown superstores. Now, the athletic-wear giant is turning to smaller boutiques. BusinessWeek's Reena Jana talks with Charlie Denson, president of the Nike brand, about the new strategy | 11/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Whither the Web? | Jeffrey Zeldman has been evangelical about the need for Web standards ever since he designed his first site back in 1995. He talks to BusinessWeek.com's Matt Vella about the future standards necessary in a brave new, Web 2.0-filled world | 11/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Redesigning General Motors | Ed Welburn, design chief of the world's largest auto manufacturer, talks about the company's design-driven turnaround | 11/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Designing Services | How can good design be applied to services as well as products? Dan Boyarksi talks with BW's Jessi Hempel about the rise of service design and the annual conference Carnegie Mellon hosts to explore the boundaries of this emerging form | 3/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Trends in Auto-Design Strategy | Stewart Reed, chair of the Transportation Design Department at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design, talks about car design in the context of business strategy | 3/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fashionable Design | During New York's Fashion Week in February, 2007, Hans-Dieter Futschik, director of passenger car design at Mercedes-Benz, discusses how and why the luxury auto maker is paying attention to high fashion for design and branding inspiration. | 2/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Design in China | As a young designer, Gordon Bruce worked in the office of the pioneering designer who built the first-ever corporate design programs at IBM and Mobil Oil. Now Bruce is doing the same for the equivalent companies in Asia. | 1/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Win by Growing | Author Harold L. Sirkin of the Boston Consulting Group discusses why sustainable growth should be the key focus of every business's innovation strategy. He also argues that killing off a great but unprofitable idea can be the best decision. | 1/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Trends of 2007 | It's the time of year when we look back on the past 12 months and predict how the business landscape will shift in 2007. Booz Allen Hamilton vice-president Barry Jaruzelski tells us what he thinks. | 1/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pioneers of the Valley | In the early Silicon Valley days, pioneering designers and computer scientists developed the concepts and tools that now define technology. Bill Moggridge, author of the book Designing Interactions, talks about the history and the future of the field. | 12/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Consumers Want | Sohrab Vossoughi, founder of top innovation and design strategy firm ZIBA Design, is moving beyond mere ethnography to figure out not only what consumers want, but why they want it. | 11/20/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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World-Changing Design | A new book looks at ways businesses, individuals, and governments can provide ecofriendly, ethical goods and services -- for profit | 11/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Design Means Business | What do we learn when the "designers" and the "suits" share the stage at Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference? We debrief conference MC (and Ideo GM) Tom Kelley | 11/6/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Innovating Cities | Is it possible to borrow innovation strategies from consulting firms, such as Chicago's Doblin Inc., to help cities with dwindling populations remake themselves? | 10/9/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Profitable Paradoxes | Former Target VP of trend, design, and product development discusses how companies are turning to contradictions to see more products and services. | 10/2/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Careers in Gaming | The co-authors of a new book on jobs in the video-game industry discuss how the industry has evolved in the last decade and predict the hottest careers of the next 10 years. | 9/18/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dwell on Design | Prefab. Sustainability. Modernism. These themes wind through every issue of Dwell, the magazine about architecture and design. They are also the core themes of the first Dwell on Design conference, which takes place Sept. 15-17 in San Francisco. | 9/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Museum of Modern Art | Barry Bergdoll, a prominent art historian and chair of the Department of Art History at Columbia University, will become the chief curator of architecture and design at New York's Museum of Modern Art on January 1, 2007. | 8/28/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Best of Show | Since 1954, ID -- a magazine covering the art, business and culture of design -- has held its Annual Design Review, a juried competition showcasing the best American and international design of consumer products, furniture, equipment, and more. | 8/21/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Get a Second Life | Giff Constable, who heads up business development for the Electric Sheep Company, talks with BusinessWeek.com's Reena Jana about the challenges and advantages of designing commercial buildings and goods within the growing universe of Second Life. | 8/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Risky Business | In his new book Risk Intelligence, author David Apgar proposes practical ways for companies (and individuals) to better assess and manage the hazards of new product development, brand strategies, and other adventurous business directions. | 8/7/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Power of Networks | Social networks may be all the rage among teens and venture capitalists today, but they're also a useful construct for innovation. BW's Management editor Jena McGregor talks to Christopher Meyer, CEO of Monitor Networks. | 7/31/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Creative Renaissance | South Africa is experiencing something of a creative renaissance. Perhaps no one embodies this creative emergence more than Ravi Naidoo. | 7/24/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Design Education | Through his work as a designer and an advocate for contemporary design, James Dyson has been at the forefront of the field of industrial design for more than three decades. Now he plans to inspire teens to pursue engineering and design. | 7/17/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An eBay for Microfinance | As the intersection between peer-to-peer financing and philanthropy, Kiva.org is harnessing the power of social networking to support microenterprise in the developing world. | 7/10/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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HP's Ecosystem | Hewlett Packard Vice-President of Design Sam Lucente is using design to unify the vast personal-electronics company and create an ecosystem of consumer-friendly products that are simpler to use and immediately identifiable with HP's brand. | 6/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Materials Witness | An architect by day, Blaine Brownell spends his spare time hunting for new materials like transparent ceramics, self-cleaning paint, and illuminated tiles. These innovative materials are crucial to the building of the future, he tells BW. | 6/5/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Breaking Point | Giles Slade, author of Made to Break, talks to BW's Reena Jana about how industrial designers, corporations, and consumers alike can benefit from breaking the cycle of "planned obsolescence," or the deliberately short lifespans of gadgets, vehicles, and c | 5/29/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Flexible Furniture | Andrew Blum talks about technology, materials, and how we live today with Yves Behar of fuseproject, Elizabeth Hertzfeld of Remake Design, Jocis Debo of Materialise.MGX, Ivan Luini of Kartell U.S., and Jerry Helling of Bernhardt Design. | 5/22/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Facing Facts | Bob Sutton's 2002 book, "Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1-2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation" (The Free Press), gave readers techniques for inspiring innovation in an organization. | 5/15/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Dose of Design | It all began with her grandfather's prescription drug bottle, which her grandmother mistook for her own. The confusion put her grandmother in the hospital, and inspired Deborah Adler, a student at the School of Visual Arts, to design a better drug label. | 5/8/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dirty Talk | It all started on a road trip. Childhood friends Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry -- one a style and branding expert, the other a chemical engineer -- hatched an idea to create a new line of home-cleaning products. | 5/1/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Corporate Design | Long before designers were invited to the World Economic Forum, one man was already talking about the vital connection between business and design: Peter Lawrence, founder and chairman of the Corporate Design Foundation. | 4/24/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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High Line Aspirations | On Manhattan's West Side, an old elevated freight railway is being reinvented as a public park called the High Line. Contributing editor Andrew Blum speaks with Joshua David, co-founder of Friends of the High Line. | 4/17/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hot Design | The world's hottest furniture designers are all in Italy. Last week's Milan Furniture Fair, the annual round-the-clock designfest was a marathon of splashy product launches and fabulous parties. | 4/10/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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City of Design | New York City Planning Commission chair Amanda Burden is helping to make New York a great place for architects from around the world to visit, and maybe even a favored destination. | 4/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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WTC: City of Glass | Artist, architect, and glass technologist James Carpenter talks about the new 7 World Trade Center, a project on which he collaborated with architects Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill on strategies to make the office building respond to its surroundings. | 3/27/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brand Madness | With the March 12 kickoff of the NCAA Division 1 Basketball Championships - known by fans as March Madness - Pontiac launched a marketing campaign that takes branded entertainment to a new level. | 3/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China Chic | Raphael le Masne de Charmont, chief executive of Shanghai Tang since 2001, discusses how the company has grown and established itself as China's first luxury brand -- via innovative design strategies | 3/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Radical Craft | When Chee Pearlman heard Charles Elachi, the director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, describe what it took to land the Pathfinder on Mars, she was struck by the extent to which this technical feat relied on craft. | 3/6/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Top-Down Innovation | Despite management's focus on innovation, U.S. executives give it short shrift, according to a study. In fact, Chinese managers name innovation or creativity as the most respected leadership quality four times more than the U.S. or Canada does. | 2/27/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Creativity for CEOs | This year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the 2006 program of the uber-klatch for high-profile economic and political elites included more than 22 sessions on "Innovation, Creativity, and Design Strategy." | 2/20/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Innovation Survey | Here's the bad news: Most corporate innovation processes are no more predictable than a coin toss. That's what Jonathan Copulsky and his colleagues at Deloitte Consulting found when they surveyed 159 executives and non-executives last summer. | 2/20/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Insanely Great Ad | Steve Hayden of Ogilvy & Mather discusses the impact of a commercial his firm created - it became perhaps the most famous TV ad ever. | 2/6/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Green Skyscrapers | An exhibit at New York City's Skyscraper Museum showcases a new crop of environmentally sustainable towers sprouting in Manhattan. | 1/30/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Judging Design | The annual IDEA awards, given out by the Industrial Designers Society of America and BusinessWeek magazine, have turned into the most coveted design honors in the country. | 1/23/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Design in Davos | When the World Economic Forum opens in Davos on Jan. 25, something will be different. The traditional format -- plenaries and sessions, dinners and parties --will continue, but the conversation is changing dramatically. | 1/16/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Making Meaning | Darrel Rhea, CEO of the company that helped Marlboro find its masculinity and margarine reveal its true color, talks about how today's companies can connect with consumers. | 1/9/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Branding Stories | Why did Dove's "Real Women" ad campaign make such a splash? Because it broke one of the golden rules of the advertising business: Only sexy models sell. Dove's ads featured everyday women -- not supermodels, or even models, for that matter. | 12/26/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pixar at MoMA | A new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art pulls together drawings, paintings, sculpture and, of course, films from throughout animation studio Pixar's 20-year history. | 12/19/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bruce Sterling | Bruce Sterling, the word-slinging science-fiction author from Texas, planned to write a book set in an age of ubiquitous computing -- in which every object is embedded with an RFID tag and can communicate with every other object. | 12/12/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Studio As Schoolhouse | Contributing editor Andrew Blum talks to two architects who have recently set up fellowship programs within their studios: Moshe Safdie and Rafael Viñoly. | 12/5/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 157 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Good news for the time deficient....
Thank goodness for this podcast. As an entrepreneur, I need to stay ahead of the information curve, but don't have tons of time. This is a great source of the latest trends in business that I can tap into while I multi-task!
Occasional good content - usually poor audio
This could be such an interesting topic but the podcast are often done remotely and the audio is usually poor. In many cases the innovation is focused on a innovative business plan and not what you typically think of as innovation. This is one of the few business week podcasts that is a disappointment.
